Portugal

Nextop Co-pilot is an intelligent driving assistant app designed to enhance road safety and operational efficiency for professional drivers. It operates fully offline using preloaded routes and special geofences to deliver real-time, on-edge audio alerts—no network connection required.

By combining GPS tracking with customizable geofence zones, the app provides precise voice guidance about critical road segments, including dangerous curves, steep downhills, speed limits, obstacle zones, and other risk areas. Fleet operators can personalize messages per route or region, offering context-aware advice that improves driver awareness and decision-making.

The solution also integrates vehicle health data, enabling real-time alerts for issues like overheating, brake wear, or system warnings—helping to prevent breakdowns and improve maintenance planning.

All processing happens directly on the device, ensuring fast, reliable alerts even in remote areas. Designed for fleets and logistics operations, Nextop Co-pilot empowers drivers with the information they need, exactly when they need it—boosting safety, compliance, and route efficiency.

Young people are highly connected to their smartphones, using them constantly throughout the day—for communication, entertainment, and social validation. Their behaviors are heavily influenced by their peers and by content they consume on social media. This affinity presents both a risk and an opportunity. On one hand, mobile devices are a major source of distraction behind the wheel; on the other, they offer a powerful channel for influence and education.
The campaign with the influencer duo @viajarmaiscommenos was designed to address three of the most critical high-risk behaviors among young drivers: 1) digital distraction while driving, 2) failure to use seatbelts, and 3) excessive speed. These behaviors are key contributors to road accidents involving youth. By using trusted digital voices, the campaign created an authentic connection with the target audience, addressing their habits through real-life scenarios and emotionally charged storytelling. The initiative aimed to foster a cultural shift—making road safety a relatable and visible part of the digital conversation for this age group.

Portugal continues to face critical road safety challenges, particularly related to digital distraction among road users. These challenges demand a cultural shift that must begin with early education and awareness efforts targeting the youngest generations. The Patrulha Júnior campaign was launched in 2019 to address the lack of structured road safety education for primary school children. At this formative age, instilling safe behaviors holds long-term potential. The campaign was designed to complement traditional awareness efforts through emotionally engaging and age-appropriate educational formats. One of the main challenges was engaging young audiences not only to become more responsible drivers in the future, but also to act as immediate multipliers of the safety message—helping raise awareness among adults and promoting safer behaviors in their families and communities. Through interactive theatre and community engagement, Patrulha Júnior tackles the root causes of unsafe behavior, promotes responsible citizenship, and extends its influence to families. Since its inception, the campaign has directly impacted over 17,000 children across 47 municipalities, illustrating its broad reach and systemic relevance.

A critical yet often neglected challenge in road safety is the time lag and communication gap between an accident and the activation of road cleaning services. Post-accident residues such as oil, fuel, and vehicle debris present immediate and serious risks to other road users. These hazards are responsible for a significant number of secondary accidents, especially in urban areas with high traffic volumes or poor weather conditions.

Traditionally, the activation of road cleaning services depends on manual reports, delayed communication, or unstructured channels, which often results in slow response times and inconsistent data. Moreover, in many municipalities, tow truck drivers—often the first on site—are not integrated into the communication chain, representing a missed opportunity for early detection.

To address this, Eurosistra Portugal, in partnership with MK Group, developed a real-time digital activation system, embedded within the platform GESTOW (tow operator platform). This solution allows tow truck drivers to report the need for cleaning, send photos, and geolocate incidents instantly. The system automates service activation, improves response times, and ensures structured, auditable records.

By closing this communication gap, the project helps prevent further accidents, improves operational coordination, and reinforces a proactive approach to post-accident road safety.

While road safety efforts often focus on prevention and driver behavior, a critical yet under-recognized issue is the post-accident condition of roadways. Hazardous residues such as oil, fuel, and vehicle debris left after a traffic incident significantly increase the risk of secondary accidents, especially in urban environments with high traffic flow or during adverse weather conditions.

It is estimated that up to 7% of road accidents are directly caused by solid or liquid waste remaining on the roadway following previous incidents. Despite this, post-accident cleaning is frequently inconsistent, delayed, or not conducted in accordance with environmental regulations.

Our initiative addresses this gap by offering a nationwide, 24/7 emergency intervention service focused on restoring road safety and environmental conditions after accidents. Activated by Civil Protection or law enforcement, our patented equipment and trained teams clean, decontaminate, and report damage with full traceability. We also georeference each intervention, helping municipalities identify accident hotspots and improve their prevention strategies.

By acting immediately after incidents, we not only reduce accident recurrence but also promote environmental compliance, public safety, and operational efficiency. Our service transforms a reactive task into a strategic road safety solution.

Increasing the safety and visibility of pedestrian crossings has to be a priority, especially in an urban environment. In Porto, 31,2% of all travels are done walking, with the exponential rise of tourism most likely increasing that value over the next few years. We set out to highlight pedestrian crossings without traffic lights in main streets, but also to induce the idea that pedestrian crossings with traffic lights in main streets are safer. In Porto, there are 298 intersections regulated by traffic lights.

Every year almost 2 million crashes are human-caused partially because of distraction and sleep, resulting in a staggering $287 billion in losses for insurance companies. WingDriver solves that using AI and your smartphone. Our technology alert drivers to keep them awake and focused.
WingDriverTM is the only company implementing Computer Vision and AI on smartphones and mobile operating systems to analyze combined facial analysis, vehicle inertial data and the vehicle surroundings to accurately identify driver drowsiness, fatigue, distraction and other driver states to prevent accidents.
The WingDriverTM tech uses smartphone cameras and sensors or the in-vehicle driver monitoring camera and Android automotive unit and combined with Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) research results, for the decision making processes that will identify the driver situation and alert drivers in real-time using audio and visual messages. Additionally, our Big Mobility Data strategy will enable us to understand the correlation between driver behavior and accidents with greater precision to accurately assess driver risk.
Our solution is based on:
- WingDriverTM Software Development Kit (SDK) - To enable any mobile application company or automotive manufacturers to include these safety features in their products;
- WingDriverTM Cloud data - Enabling for a better risk assessment and consequently improved insurance products;
- WingDriverTM App and White-label apps - Our iOS and Android apps are developed in a way that enables a quick change on the visuals to fit our client needs. Facilitating proof of concept activities.

WingDriverTM delivers a data driven solution to monitor, evaluate and reward safe drivers, enabling:
- Reduce operational costs - By preventing collisions with real time alerts, drivers will drive safer, cost related to insurance and maintenance will be decreased, and fleet uptime will be increased.
- Improve driver behaviour - By collecting accurate driver behavioral data (drive assist data, vehicle assist data and telematics), WingDriver enables personalized coaching and instruction, resulting in improved driving behavior and habits.
-Tailormade for insurance - By analyzing data on factors such as sleep, distraction, and overall driving performance, insurers can accurately assess and price risk for individual drivers (usage-based insurance).
- Keep customers engaged - Cutting-edge solution that adds valuable insights into customers’ driving behavior, their performance through personalized reports and their motivation with gamification elements such as rewards and challenges.

A Criança como Peão, como passageiro e como condutor de bicicleta. Utilizar sistemas de retenção, conhecer e utilizar as vias e sinais rodoviários básicos.

Na sequência de um sinistro rodoviário, por vezes, surgem na via detritos e resíduos sólidos e/ou líquidos provenientes das partes do veículo (como vidros, plásticos, óleo, gasóleo) que, se não forem retirados e limpos prontamente, podem constituir um fator de risco para a ocorrência de novos acidentes.

Muitas vezes, pela falta de meios operacionais e especialização técnica, os mesmos são deixados nas vias, tornando-as menos seguras e mais poluídas.
Outras vezes, os resíduos são limpos com produtos poluentes e/ou deixados na berma da estrada, acabando por ficar no solo.

Alguns acidentes podem também provocar Danos ao Mobiliário Urbano, que, em muitos casos, se mostra também essencial para a segurança das vias e informação dos seus utentes (por exemplo, sinalização vertical, barreiras de proteção, entre outros).

A Eurosistra Portugal, Lda – Segurança e Ambiente pretende, assim, através do seu trabalho diário:
• Reduzir a taxa de sinistralidade rodoviária causada pela ausência ou ineficaz limpeza da via após a ocorrência de um acidente rodoviário;
• Garantir a correta e segura normalização da circulação rodoviária no mais curto espaço de tempo possível;
• Colaborar e apoiar as entidades gestoras da via na melhoria da Gestão da Segurança Rodoviária e da segurança das suas Infraestruturas Rodoviárias;
• Contribuir para a proteção do Ambiente ao proceder à limpeza das vias na sequência de um acidente de acordo com as disposições legais em vigor, em particular no que diz respeito à legislação ambiental;
• Colaborar com entidades gestoras das vias (públicas e privadas) na promoção de políticas sustentáveis dirigidas à redução da sinistralidade rodoviária e proteção do Meio Ambiente.